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The Appeal Audio CD – Edizione integrale, 1 novembre 2021

Edizione Inglese di Janice Hallett (Autore), Aysha Kala (Lettore), Daniel Philpott (Lettore),

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Inglese
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Oakhill Publishing
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1 novembre 2021
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19.6 x 19.6 x 4 cm
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139911820X
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978-1399118200
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Editore ‏ : ‎ Oakhill Publishing; Unabridged edizione (1 novembre 2021)
Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 139911820X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1399118200
Dimensioni ‏ : ‎ 19.6 x 19.6 x 4 cm

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HMR

Excellent

Recensito in Italia 🇮🇹 il 2 agosto 2021

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A totally new way to write a novel! Brilliant and kept you turning the pages trying to solve the riddles!

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Angie67

Very original

Recensito in Italia 🇮🇹 il 16 gennaio 2022

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This was truly something else… and I applaud the author for coming up with such a unique format.

Two apprentices working for a lawyer are tasked with the assignment to uncover the murderer of Samantha Greenwood. But how? It's simple, by checking 1400 personal e-mails and text messages from suspects, during the time before her murder.

After reading this book, I am hesitant to pursue my career as a detective because I had no idea who the killer was. Especially because each of the 15 suspects (yes, you read well) had a good reason to kill Sam. And yes, I suspected them all at one stage.

Although there isn’t any action in this book, there’s plenty of drama, and it was very interesting to have the story unfold just by reading through the correspondence.
Most of what went on outside the e-mails was left to the imagination, and to gather more information you had to read between the lines. In the end, I had all the details I needed to solve the case, but I still couldn't.

On the downside I felt the book could have been shorter. Many e-mails flew over my head… and I had no idea if they were going to be important to solving the case. It was hard to keep track of who everyone was and how they were connected, even though you get a detailed list of all the characters. It had me flipping back and forth between the pages which was time consuming.
Also, reading over 400 pages of correspondence at times felt like a chore and I craved some real interaction between the protagonists!

But it’s certainly worth picking up, if you want an Agatha Christie style thriller and fancy yourself a sleuth!

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alifabw

Absolutely dire......

Recensito nel Regno Unito 🇬🇧 il 31 gennaio 2021

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The first night I started reading this I couldn't put it down. The format meant that the reader doesn't know what, if any, crime has been committed and I was keen to find out. However, after the second session reading it I was finding the format very trying, I couldn't keep track of the huge cast of characters and was just frustrated. In the second part of the book the two people reviewing the evidence (firstly described as first year law students and then as articled clerks, so even the author was confused!) communicated like teenagers trying to be adults (or like the author trying unsuccessfully to write younger characters!) and the fact that they were involved at all was totally unbelievable. I ended up finding the book frustrating and the story, and the apparent collusion between characters, not credible in any way. After the promising start it turned into one of the worst books I have ever read and I felt that it should have had an awful lot more editing than it did, if, indeed, it had been edited at all! How it ever became the Sunday Times thriller of the year is beyond me....

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bmi

Clever, cunning and addicitve - it's wonderful

Recensito nel Regno Unito 🇬🇧 il 16 gennaio 2021

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What a tour de force.

This was so original. The way, even from emails and texts peoples characters are drawn. The shafts of humour. A whiff of the supernatural.

Loved it. Oh, and if you are reading this on a kindle take a couple of pictures on your phone of the 'The Fairway Players', very helpful in remembering who is who.

So many congratulations to the author.

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Michael Jacobs

Ridiculous

Recensito nel Regno Unito 🇬🇧 il 9 aprile 2021

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I can’t think of a book I’ve enjoyed less. How is a reader to know what they are reading it for if so much is left to the last page. Normally a lawyer asking two people to review evidence would tell them that such and such a person was murdered on such a date, and that another named person was found guilty of the crime. The lawyer would then provide a transcript of the trial and other evidence from letters and emails for them to review. Here the reader knows nothing of the apparent crime (although I twigged the fraud very early on) until two thirds of the way through the book. Apart from that I agree totally with the worst review that there are far too many characters without even a chart at the front to remind us who is related to who. And the format of emails is completely frustrating. Many of them contain content that is utterly irrelevant. And on my kindle some pages contained more of the headings , from, subject, to, date, etc than actual content from the body of the email! I can’t fathom why so many people rave about the book. I can only think that we now live in a culture where people are reading their emails on their phones more than proper books and so this for them was heaven!!

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Robert

Much confusion

Recensito nel Regno Unito 🇬🇧 il 23 gennaio 2021

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Like the curate’s egg good in very occasional parts. But mostly like a fair isle knitting pattern with cable stitch. Too many characters, plot over complicated with characters pretending to be other characters and in the end I had lost the will to care who had done what.

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Joanne Sheppard

Clever, original satirical mystery

Recensito nel Regno Unito 🇬🇧 il 8 marzo 2021

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I started reading Janice Hallett's The Appeal on the recommendation of a friend who told me she'd stayed up reading it until 1am because she couldn't put it down, and I have to say that I was similarly gripped.

On the face of it, The Appeal shouldn't be anything like the page-turner that it is. It's not a fast-paced thriller. There's no lurking serial killer, no police work, no espionage, no detective, none of that. For most of the book, we're reading a substantial pile of emails, text messages and press clippings relating to a provincial amateur dramatics society. These documents are part of a QC's evidence bundle for an appeal against someone's murder conviction, but we aren't even told who the supposed victim is, let alone who is is in prison.

That means it's up to us to piece together what's happened from the content and tone of the conversations available. It becomes clear that the wealthy, middle-class Hayward family, who own a local hotel and health club, are at the centre of their social circle and are the driving force behind the Fairway Players. Martin Hayward runs the group and, along with his son James, directs the shows, while his wife Helen and daughter Paige are the perennial leading ladies while everyone else is vying for the best supporting roles, both on and off stage. When Martin and Helen's two-year-old grandchild, Paige's daughter Poppy, is diagnosed with a brain tumour, their friends and hangers-on immediately form a committee to crowdfund an experimental new treatment from America.

Meanwhile, Fairway Players stalwart Issy Beck has introduced two new members to the group. Issy is a nurse on a geriatric ward and is delighted when her new colleague Sam Greenwood and her husband Kel agree to audition. Sam and Kel have just returned from volunteering in Africa with Medecins Sans Frontieres but why did they leave? And what's their connection with Poppy's doctor?
Creative writing students are often instructed to 'show, not tell' when it comes to their characters and Janice Hallett is certainly an absolute master of this. With only the characters' own words to go on, we can immediately start to build up a clear picture of each of them and of the group dynamic. Issy's excitable, over-enthusiastic and almost childlike emails have a clingy, obsessive note to them. The bossy, capable tones of Sarah-Jane McDonald, who as a former charity sector fundraising manager is naturally best placed to assume the mantle of campaign coordinator for A Cure for Poppy are spot-on - sometimes persuasive, sometimes hectoring. Martin Hayward is confidently authoritative while his son, James, takes a softer and more theatrical tone. And - importantly - what isn't said is often as revealing as what is.

Every character is acutely well-observed, as are the social interactions between them, the constant low-level battle for status within the group and the rapidity with rumours and speculation spread from one to another. It's as much a satire on the nature of certain types of social group as it is a puzzle to be solved and it is frequently very funny.

I'm sure some readers may not take to the way the story is told, or to the gossipy pettiness of so many of the characters' interactions - it has a very parish council feel to it, and there are definitely characters who would not accept that Jackie Weaver has any authority here, so you will occasionally have a strong urge to punch them. But I'm fascinated by this kind of very English, microcosmic story and while I'm delighted that I never have to spend time with these people in real life, I was delighted to observe them from afar.

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